No one knows that smoking and alcohol abuse are a kind of body-friendly habit, but fresh research in Denmark is bringing additional attention to these behaviors, focusing on the obvious damage they can make to your appearance. .
Smoking has an impact on your health - it also affects your appearance. (Source: Terroa / iStock / GettyImages) This study was published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, claiming that heavy drinking and smoking will increase your appearance. Faster. Causes four special types of damage: earlobe creases, gray rings or curves around the cornea, yellow-orange skin tags and male-type baldness. Who knows that the earlobe will show signs of aging, right?
This study tracks 11,500 people - the current average age is 51 years - over 40 years. The researchers found that heavy drinkers were 33% to 35% more likely to show signs of aging, and those who smoked a pack of 15 or more cigarettes a day had a 41% chance of developing these features.
[ "We want to study signs of aging because they seem to have a certain predictive value for the life expectancy of your life," said Janne Tolstrup, senior research author and the National Institute of Public Health at the University of Southern Denmark.The study also found that those who participated in moderate levels did not show higher signs of aging than those who abstained. In the case of excessive drinking, more than 28 beverages were consumed per week in the study, and women were 33% more likely to have an age-related gray corneal ring than women who drank 7 or fewer drinks per week. Men have similar risks.
The risk of earlobe creases in heavy drinkers is also high: about 26% to 36%. One effect associated with smoking and non-smoking is jaundice, or yellow-orange cholesterol that usually appears on or around the eyelids.
"The interesting result is that we can see these, for example, the eyes are very fast, and for things like high blood pressure or high cholesterol levels, we have to make advanced measurements to get them," Tolstrup said.
The results of the survey came from timely fashion, as the third Thursday of NovemberIt is the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout, an annual event that hopes to encourage smokers in the country to quit. According to its website, smoking and tobacco remain the world's largest preventable diseases and causes of premature death, but there are still some 36.5 million American smokers who continue to take risks.
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